Theorycrafting, Computations, and General Observations from a Shadow Point of View

For a primer on this post, please see the original post from July 30, 2012. For the post dealing with 2 DoT encounters in Best in Slot gear, as well as a description of what constitutes a 2-target fight, please see: Multi-Target Boss Fight DPS in Mists of Pandaria – Part 1 (2 DoT Encounters […]

For a primer on this post, please see the original post from July 30, 2012. As any seasoned WoW player will tell you, when you introduce variables to a boss fight it changes how you need to approach the encounter. So far I’ve tried to cover a variety of single-target fight types in my sims: […]

With the release patch 5.0.4 less than 100 hours away, there are still a lot of playstyle and mechanics questions relating to Shadow that are unanswered (and in some cases, unasked). One of the more common questions that has been floating around on several discussion forums is what to do about the loss of our […]

Usual disclaimer: the following information is as of the Mist of Pandaria Beta build 16004, released on August 17, 2012, and may not be accurate once future patches are released. For a primer on this post, please see the original post from July 30, 2012. Wait? What’s this? Didn’t I just post about the MoP […]

Usual disclaimer: the following information is as of the Mist of Pandaria Beta build 16004, released on August 17, 2012, and may not be accurate once future patches are released. For a primer on this post, please see the original post from July 30, 2012. To see the previous set of changes, please see this […]

Three patches in 4 days! I’m OK with this! Here’s what’s changed in the world of Shadow this time: Devouring Plague has its damage increased by 10%. To put this in perspective, this is equivalent to having its damage reduced by 7.5% if the nerfs in Build 15972 never occurred. Mind Flay had its damage […]

There was only one change of note to Shadow in the patch Blizzard is releasing right now: Mind Blast was buffed 25% from where it was in the last build. Another way of interpreting this is that Mind Blast was buffed 6.3% from where it was before the nerf in this last build occurred. This […]

Usual disclaimer: the following information is as of the Mist of Pandaria Beta build 15972, released on August 14, 2012, and may not be accurate once future patches are released. For a primer on this post, please see the original post from early last week. To see the previous set of changes, please see the […]

With a firm release date of August 28, 2012 now set for 5.0.4 (I.E. two weeks from today), it is safe to say that we are in the closing stretch of class changes and balancing. Another build was released today with typical results: nerfs, though they weren’t just limited to Shadow Priests. Here’s a recap […]

I’ve spent a good chunk of this past weekend playing around with the best in slot list supplied with SimulationCraft for Shadow Priests, mostly trying to improve upon it based on what has been determined to be our current stat weights as of the last beta build. For anyone curious what this ‘Best in Slot […]